Some Tear Sheets

Jeff Pflueger's editorial work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times, Outside, Men's Journal, Sunset Magazine and many others. The following are a selection of tear sheets from some selected publications. Jeff Pflueger Photo Media has a number of commercial clients including Patagonia, Outward Bound, NovaTel and others. Here is a small sampling.

Portrait of Olaf Malver for Canoe and Kayak Magazine

Portrait of Olaf Malver. Owner of explorers cornerOlaf Malver is the man behind Explorer's Corner - a company that leads expedition style kayaking trips in some of the remotest places on the planet. We had to arrange to do this shoot early in the morning for a profile in a magazine so that we could catch the Golden Gate in that foggy, foreboding mood it gets in when the fogs pours in from the pacific in the wee hours of the morning. So it is about 6:30 AM and I have big strobes set up below the Golden Gate bridge to light Olaf and make the background even darker and more foreboding than it was.

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Hiking in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

bryce1and2_web_thumb.jpgNational Geographic Adventure features spread of hiking in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, in "The Most Beautiful Places: Parks '08"

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Embracing The Bay

Kayaking on San Francisco Bay under the Golden Gate BridgeCanoe and Kayak writes about the oil spill in San Francisco Bay, and illustrates the story with my image from a day on the clean waters of the Bay.

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Hawaii on a Dime - Kauai and the Big Island for the New York Times

hawaii_new_york_times_thumbnail.jpg A recent assignment for the New York Times in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Five Star Wilderness - Helicopter Hiking in British Columbia, Canada

Five Star Wilderness - Helicopter Hiking in British Columbia, CanadaThe New York Times sent me to British Columbia, Canada to photograph the helicopter hiking that is happening there. As a wilderness purist who has spent substantial time in the mountains, with all my summits earned only through sweat, I wasn't sure what I'd think of catching a ride to pristine alpine environments in a helicopter - but the experience proved that these disappearing environments are as special however you arrive, and that perhaps a helicopter is the only way to deliver many people to visit them.

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The Last Wilderness

all_three_thumbnail.jpg"The Last Wilderness" - a depressing title for an otherwise great piece! Though stunning and remote, let us hope that Northern Idaho doesn't represent the last wilderness anytime soon. A six day assignment this spring in Northern Idaho produces a nice front page in the New York Times Sunday Travel Section, a great spread inside.

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The Ballad of Route 89

jeff_pflueger_mark_sundeen_route_89_national_geographic_220px.jpgNational Geographic Adventure publishes a long feature I photographed about route 89, and a trip we made from Canada to Mexico along that route.

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Men's Journal and Yosemite's Ostrander Hut

jeff_pflueger_mens_journal_ostrander_hut_thumb.jpgMen's Journal runs a two page spread of my photo of the Ostrander Hut in Yosemite. I wonder if the caretaker, Howard, is going crazy with all publicity that the hut is getting...sorry Howard! Then again, if Yosemite National Park sees a lot of interest in the hut, perhaps they'll stop being so cranky about it, and maybe even pave the way for more winter ski hut opportunities in the Park.

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Big Sur Without the Crowds

big_sur_spread_all_combined_thumb.jpgAn assignment to photograph stormy Big Sur in the winter. My photos are the front page and a big spread in the New York Times January 7, 2007 Travel Section.

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A Yosemite Hushed By Winter Snow

I shot a story for the New York Times about Sierra backcountry skiing and Yosemite's historic Ostrander Hut. The shoot was over six days and involved over 36 miles of combined backcountry skiing. The story was published February 19,2006.I shot a story for the New York Times about Sierra backcountry skiing and Yosemite's historic Ostrander Hut. The shoot was over six days and involved over 36 miles of combined backcountry skiing. The story was published February 19,2006.

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Patagonia

patagoniathumb.jpgI am both the photographer and the model in this shot I did for the clothing brand Patagonia.

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Running the Forbidden River

brazos_river_new_mexico_kayak.jpg"Kayaking the Forbidden River" was published in the July 2005 issue of Men's Journal. Writer Frederick Reimers and I document the descent of a class V+ river in New Mexico. The river is rarely run - it is rare that there is enough snow run-off to feed the river, and the access to the put-in goes through private land owned by surly ranchers.

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Notes From the Tundra Ground

natgeothumb.jpgMy photography and Mark Sundeen's writing document a climbing expedition I organized to the Arrigetch Peaks of Alaska. The expedition involved several first ascents, and eighteen days in a very remote area north of the Arctic Circle. The piece was published in the June/July 2003 issue of National Geographic Adventure.

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Vive la Magpie

magpie_page1%262_thumb.jpgJeff covered a class V wilderness river expedition on Quebec's remote Magpie River. Conservationists from around North America including environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., representatives from GreenPeace, writers, the media, and many other environmental groups, convened for this expedition to draw attention to the river and the dam that threatens it. Published in the April 2005 issue of National Geographic Adventure.

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Whtewater Rafting Product Shoot

whitewater_rafting_thumb.jpgJeff Pflueger hires three models, receives gear from over a dozen manufacturers, scouts a location, and photographs the gear in use between winter storms.

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Wilderness Beach - Gold Bluff Beach, California

gold_bluff_beach_thumb.jpgJeff's assignment for Men's Journal to photograph camping at Gold Bluff Beach for Men's Journal.

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River Missionary

A portrait of kayaker Dunbar Hardy published in Outside Magazine's Buyers Guide. I made the portrait with an underwater housing that would accomodate a flash and while I was immersed in the river and Dunbar and kayak was tethered to shore.A portrait of kayaker Dunbar Hardy published in Outside Magazine's Buyers Guide. I made the portrait with an underwater housing that would accomodate a flash and while I was immersed in the river and Dunbar and kayak was tethered to shore.

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A Taste of Retro Vertigo

east-bay-express-thumb.jpgJeff Pflueger writes and photographs "A Taste of Retro Vertigo" - A climb of a historic Yosemite route and an interview with Allen Steck - the man who first climbed the route in '52. Read the article in the East Bay Express

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Outward Bound Catalogs

obthumb.jpgJeff's photography appears in numerous Colorado Outward Bound and Outward Bound USA publications over the last four years, including all of the annual catalogs from 2000-2004.

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2003 American Alpine Journal

aajthumb.jpgJeff Pflueger's written account and photography in the American Alpine Journal about the climbing expedition he organized to the Arrigetch Peak in Alaska.

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A Course For Adventure

experiencelifethumb.jpgJeff's photography used to illustrate a story about wilderness adventure courses with both Outward Bound and NOLS.

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